An examination of professional development opportunities for early learning professionals in Washington State, with recommendations for the creation of a system of early learning professional development

An account of the collaborative efforts of Skagit Valley College and a group of advisors from a local Head Start program to improve the Child Development Associate program's ability to meet the needs of working, adult, and Spanish-speaking degree candidates

A discusson of problems faced by both childhood teacher education programs and their students related to raising educational requirements for students and a discussion of online learning as one, among many, possible solutions

A discussion of the value of narrative inquiry, a process of studying and understanding experience through storytelling or narrative writing, in early childhood teacher education, with course and project examples drawn from the experiences of the authors

Research Connections is supported by grant #90YE0104 from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (OPRE), U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Inter-university Consortium for Political
and Social Research and do not necessarily represent the official views of OPRE, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.